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Liberty of conscience alive among Roger Williams University students

Liberty of conscience alive among Roger Williams University students

Taylor Stoermer, professor who teaches the history and modern practice of democracy at RWU and public history at Harvard University: To Roger Williams, liberty of conscience was everything. In one’s conscience lay the very keys to life in this world and the next, as study leads to thought, thought to belief, belief to faith, and faith to salvation. In his case, of course, that study was of the scripture, and the salvation a religious rather than intellectual one, but the…

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